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While ostensibly, the United States has two major political parties, in truth, there is only a single political party with both sides representing the Washington, DC political class and the crony capitalists who fund campaigns and manipulate the strings behind the scenes.
The 2016 election was supposed to be yet another Bush v Clinton contest where DC couldn't lose and the people couldn't win. All that was at stake was which wing of the Uni-Party would gain power which meant which side's cronies would be rewarded. If Secretary Clinton pulled it off, the Democrats' cronies' wallets would grow fatter. If Jeb Bush won, the Republicans' cronies' bank accounts would increase.It's called crony capitalism, and no matter who prevails, the national debt increases, hedge fund operators continue to carry their interest and avoid the income tax rate levied on teachers, doctors, dentists and middle managers, corporations continue to move offshore to avoid paying the high corporate taxes levied on U.S. businesses, the individual income tax rate continues to rise, welfare programs expand, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid continue to consume more and more of the budget, the southern border remains open, amnesty recommended for those already entered the country illegally, Wall Street fat cats thrive, jobs continue to go south or, as in the case of the tech industry, east to India. Both Hillary and Jeb would be a little more hawkish than President Obama, a little wiser in foreign policy, but both would continue to foot the bill for the United Nations and NATO and support the kind of "free" trade that benefits anyone but the United States.In short, the status would be quoed.Secretary Clinton had a few token challengers. Martin O'Malley of Baltimore, Jim Webb of Virginia and Socialist, Bernie Sanders, of Vermont all dutifully filed their candidacies, but nobody expected any of them to pose any real threat to the former Secretary of State, senator and First Lady. And as predicted, Webb and O'Malley quickly dropped out, both having run out of money, steam and poll numbers. But to everyone's surprise, Sanders kept plodding along, and gradually, like the tortoise overtaking the hare in Aesop's fable, Sanders's message of free stuff for everyone began to resonate. It isn't surprising. Young men and women struggling with massive college debt and who can't find jobs in the faltering U.S. economy don't know socialism doesn't work. But they do know that crony capitalism hasn't worked.At least not for them. And not for Main Street certainly or the average worker.Where will it all end? Those interested should review what Ross Perot said in the 1992 where he ran as a third party candidate in the first Clinton v Bush presidential race. (1) Asked when America would stop losing jobs to Mexico, Mr. Perot responded (paraphrased), "when the average Mexican worker's salary rises to $6.00/hour (remember, this was 1992) and the average American worker's salary drops to $6.00/hour."Since both Carrier and Ford recently announced they were closing plants in the United States and opening them in Mexico, the cool cat can only assume American wages and the living standard that goes along with higher wages have not equalized. Those who are as curious as the cool cat should begin to wonder sooner or later what is the benefit to the American economy when displaced American workers become tax consumers and not tax payers.On the Republican side of the Uni-Party, billionaire businessman, Donald Trump, descended from the top of Trump Tower and joined the the puppy pile that passed for the Uni-Party's R-wing nomination. At the time, the candidates included a neurosurgeon, a former Hewlett-Packard executive, a Canadian born first term Hispanic-American senator, another first term Hispanic senator, (this one born in America), a long-term senator from South Carolina who never met a Middle Eastern country he didn't want to invade, a bunch of former and sitting governors, all of whom were capable and competent, a libertarian senator and perennial presidential candidate, Rick Santorum.Nobody in the pundit class took Mr. Trump seriously. They all knew the Uni-Party R nominee would be Jeb Bush. After all, the country hadn't had a Bush or a Clinton vying for the presidency since 2008. What Jeb lacked in charisma and smarts, he more than made up in Wall Street, king-makers and Super PAC money. And the icing on the cake? The cherry on the sundae? He was married to a Latina and spoke fluent Spanish. Just the candidate the GOP needed to curry favor with the fast growing Hispanic community.But as Monty Python used to say, "nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition". As the summer sizzled, fall fell and faded and winter wore on, Jeb burned through money the way Paul Ryan and Barack Obama burned through the last Federal Budget, and as spring sprang, the Uni-Party woke up to realize Donald Trump had won New Hampshire, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Missouri, Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Arizona and Massachusetts. If any Uni-Party Establishment candidate had won this many states in as many regions of the country, the Establishment would have declared the race over and done. But the possibility that the people would choose Donald Trump as their nominee brought on a bad enough case of the vapors that the Uni-Party R wing turned to Senator Ted Cruz, going so far as the Colorado executive committee cancelling Colorado's traditional presidential preference poll because the national party changed its rules to require a state's delegates to support the candidate who wins the caucus vote. (2)Things aren't much better in the Democrat side of the picture where Democrat voters are preferring Socialist Bernie Sanders to Secretary Clinton. Although Senator Sanders has won the last eight contests culminating with Wyoming, the system is so rigged that although Senator Sanders just won Wyoming, it was Secretary Clinton who got the majority of Wyoming's delegates. (3) Just as Senator Cruz is quietly collecting delegates in the states Donald Trump won. Apparently America fell asleep, and while we were sleeping, the political parties in Washington, DC (4), collaborated to form a ruling elite funded by an unknown and shadowy and faceless oligarchical plutocracy. As Mark Twain said, "If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(1) Giant Sucking Sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgx1C_S6ls(2) Colorado, here we come(3) Home on the Range(4) "However political parties may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." George Washington -----------
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